The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he creates it out of his own experience and understanding of life. In life when all else is lost, art holds fast, and that is the good news about art. Good news is the desire of every lover of good thing. In these days of depressing headlines, uncertainty and odd occurrences all around us, good news is very welcome.
What good news could there be at a period when the year 2016 comes to an end and everyone looks ahead with hope into 2017? The good news is that art is life, and this is the reason for the ‘Good News Exhibition.’ The exhibition brings to our visuality, with palpable imagery and in an innocuous manner, the catharsis of the artist – Taiwo Owoyemi’s own good news. The efforts in this exhibition, in uncanny manner, attempt to define the artist’s personality -artistic, religious and sociable.
With dream of stardom, Owoyemi’s resilience and search for new grounds to launch his artistic leap is set in this, ‘Good News Exhibition.’ Owoyemi is a committed artist and a believer in virtuous proclivity. The titles of his works on exhibit here easily give him out. “Still Patriotic” is a mixed media (2x4ft), featuring a damsel, sleek and stylised figure with two hands spread out. The figure with braided hair, held in seven places, is symbolic. In African and Christian spiritual teaching, the head is significant in the destiny of an individual and seven is the number of perfection in Christian religious understanding. Besides, the eyeballs of the figure are patterned into the overtly depressed but laterally elongated face, enlivened by two dramatically formed eyes. The two bright eyes of the female figure, with dropping eyelids, stare at the audience. The blouse and pant of this feminine figure are adorned with signs and symbols ingeniously inlaid to create artistic points of tension and rest, for the eyes and emotion. Many of Owoyemi’s works in this exhibition are in this mould.
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